Remembering Today the Officers and Men of the 11th (Lewisham) Battalion, Royal West Kent Regiment who "went over the top" as part of the Battle of the Transloy Ridge.

Remembering my Grandfather's Bombing Officer, 20 year old Lt John Oswald Heath.
Commemerated upon the Thiepval Memorial.

Remembering 19 year old Private Ernest Campbell G/11275.
Known as "Soapy" to his pals he was part of D Companys Machine Gun Section.
A Case Makers Labourer from Deptford, London he enlisted on the 20th November 1915 and became good friends with my Grandfather.
Killed by the same shell that wounded my Grandfather, who wrote in his journal after the war

"...looked at Soapy, he was lying on his side, head moving slowly from side to side...then quite still."

Commemerated upon the Thiepval Memorial.

Freedom is Not Free.

Remembering.

Thank you for the freedom that i enjoy.

RIP

Scottie.

And remembering Pte William Henry James Humphries G9996 11th Bn Queens own Royal West Kents Died of Wounds, has no know grave

Remembering the sacrifices of the Lewisham Bn and 2/Lt Reginald Watson, former scholar at King's School, Canterbury, and killed at Transloy Ridge. He had joined the Bn just three days previously.

Duty Done.